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  An interview with Manue Fleytoux, director of Lâchez les chiens (Release the Hounds)  What do the dogs represent here? You’re free to interpret. For me, the dogs are the thin-skinned animal nature of the character Anouck, on the one hand, and on the other, at the end of the film you could say that the hounds have been released. Our characters run together […]

  An interview with Leonor Noivo, director of Tudo o que Imagino (All I Imagine)  Why did you want to depict the end of adolescence in Tudo o que Imagino? I’ve always been interested in this period when people take that step beyond the sphere of their parents or guardians– this can happen earlier, at the age of 13/14 or later, at 19/20… My previous film, […]

  An interview with Baer Xiao, director of Derrière le nuage (Behind the Cloud)  Just like Xinquan, we end up being interested in the thief’s life and family! Did you envision a sequel? That’s a good question. The ending is open. And since the connection between the Algerian woman and Xinquan comes up at the end of the film, we don’t know what the two say […]

  An interview with Carine May, co-director of Master of the Classe  Why did you want to write and direct a film about a school teacher? I’m a school teacher. I taught for about ten years and I had plenty of material! We really wanted to talk about teachers – not the way we usually see them portrayed, but by making them more human, […]

  An interview with Pola Beck, director of Kleptomami  Where did the inspiration for the character come from? Was what she was going through something you were able to relate to or had experienced? A few months after my son’s birth, I realized that I was not as cool and relaxed as I had always thought I would be as a young mother. To everyone […]

  An interview with Lorris Coulon, director of Des hommes à la mer (Men at Sea)  What was it like filming at sea? On the trawler/set, we were lucky enough to have a great crew that welcomed and helped us. They not only agreed to the specific conditions necessary for filming, but also helped with staging by showing the actors how to move and […]

  An interview with Sorayos Prapapan, director of Awasarn Sound Man  How did you get into the idea of focusing your film on this couple of audio engineers? I’m also one of them. This is how we work. I like to do storytelling by sound.  Which natural sound or foley is the most interesting to record? I think the most interesting thing is that […]

  An interview with Petar Krumov, director of Sram (Shame)  Sram translates as shame. Where does the shame come from in this film? What does it imply? It is a simple story about a boy who is ashamed of his mother because she works as a janitor in his school. Shame is a unique phenomenon because it strikes us with the force of an instinct, […]

More than a world tour, the international competition paints an annual portrait of the contemporary world. Because its production times are shorter, the short film is the format that gives us the most current portrayal of our times. Their subjects question our society. We discover their characters as an intimate and universal echo of these times we live in. In 2018, 75 short films […]

The national competition was the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival’s original competition, and this year’s fortieth installment offers fifty-four films. And even though directors and producers don’t sit down and agree to follow a particular movement, making it difficult to establish trends, we can still see some general directions.   French short films are becoming more international  There are numerous factors that account for a […]